If Democrats are the party that worships at the altar of Science, Gov. Cuomo must be an atheist.

After years of stalling, Cuomo last December banned hydrofracturing, a k a fracking, in New York — pointing to the chance it might pose health risks. (And never mind that it’s done safely all across the county.)

This may be the first time that an Obama regulatory agency has been accused of not going far enough.

For reasons of his own, the governor’s decided to side with the wealthy landowners and urban ideologues who hate fracking. He’ll ignore actual scientific findings and deny Upstate the boom that exploiting the Marcellus and Utica shales would bring.